GHG Emissions and Economic Growth: A Computable General Equilibrium Model Based Analysis for India

Author:   Barun Deb Pal ,  Vijay P. Ojha ,  Sanjib Pohit ,  Joyashree Roy
Publisher:   Springer, India, Private Ltd
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
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Pages:   182
Publication Date:   23 August 2016
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Author:   Barun Deb Pal ,  Vijay P. Ojha ,  Sanjib Pohit ,  Joyashree Roy
Publisher:   Springer, India, Private Ltd
Imprint:   Springer, India, Private Ltd
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   3.226kg
ISBN:  

9788132229636


ISBN 10:   8132229630
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   23 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Chapter 1: Economic Growth and GHG emissions: Policy Perspective from past Indian studies.- Chapter 2: Social Accounting Matrix of India: Concepts and Construction.- Chapter 3: Environmentally Extended Social Accounting Matrix of India: Definition and Construction Methodology.- Chapter 4: Impact of Economic Growth on GHG emissions - SAM Multiplier Analysis.- Chapter 5: GHG Emissions in India- A Structural Decomposition Analysis.- Chapter 6: An Environmental CGE Model for India.- Chapter 7: Reference and Policy Scenarios of CGE Model.- Chapter 8: Policy Message for Mitigating India’s GHG emissions.

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Dr. Barun Deb Pal is currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. He has been working in the field of SAM based CGE modelling for the last 7 years. He has also worked on climate-smart agriculture and land-use planning models for South Asia as a key researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He has a long professional affiliation with the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), working on climate change CGE modeling. He has published papers in journals of international repute with one of his publication being “A Social Accounting Matrix for India”, published in 2012 in Economic Systems Research (Taylor and Francis). His current areas of research interest include various developmental issues and their linkages with climate change, low carbon agriculture, Infrastructure and public utility pricing. Dr. Vijay P Ojha is a Professor of Economics at the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India. A Computable General Equilibrium modeler (CGE) by training, he employed the CGE modeling technique to analyze the trade-offs among carbon emissions, economic growth and poverty reduction in India while tenuring as a post-doctoral Commonwealth Fellow at the Environment Department, University of York, United Kingdom in 2004. Ever since, he has been working on climate-change issues using the CGE modeling methodology. He has authored many published reports and academic journal papers His most recent publications are in the Journal of Policy Modeling (Elsevier) and Environment and Development Economics (Cambridge University Press). Dr. Sanjib Pohit is presently working as a Senior Principal Scientist, Senior Fellow at the National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies (CSIR). He was educated at the Indian Statistical Institute. Previously, he held research positions (Senior Fellow/Chief Economist) at the National Council for Applied Economic Research, New Delhi and the Indian Statistical Institute and was also a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) and the Conference Board of Canada. Dr. Pohit has been a member of several committees of the Government of India and a Council Member of the Gerson Lehman group. He has been a consultant to various national and international bodies, including The World Bank, Asian Development Bank, The Energy & Resource Institute, OECD, CUTS, Price Waterhouse Coopers, ICRIER and RIS (New Delhi). Dr. Pohit is an experienced modeler in the area of trade and environment with 20 years of modeling experience. He has he worked in the area of institutional economics, transport economics, input-output models, FDI, informal trade, the automobile industry and South Asian integration. He has co-authored 6 books, and has published more than 100 articles in journals/books. He has presented his research at seminars and conferences in different parts of the world – Japan, Canada, USA, India, Bangladesh, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Singapore and Finland. Dr.  Joyashree Roy, an ICSSR National Fellow, is currently a Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Additionally, she coordinates the Global Change Programme and also directs the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Project at Jadavpur University. In 2007 she was on the Nobel Peace Prize winning panel –IPCC (Intergovernmental panel on climate change). She has been involved in preparation of Stern Review Report, Global Energy Assessment and many other national and global reports. She has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles in journals of national and international repute. Her research interests are in resource and environmental economics, particularly in the field of energy demand modelling, economic assessment of application of non-renewable and renewable resources for urban and rural problems, economic and social dimensions of climate change, water resource management and multidisciplinary research on sustainable development, sustainability transition, ecosystem services in the context of coastal ecosystem.

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